Talks and debates – full of great ideas and thinking they are joined by journalist and writer Melissa Benn, Oasis founder Steve Chalke, professional optimist Mark Stevenson, speaker Abdul-Rehman Malik, priest and poet Rachel Mann, and youth worker Fuzz Kitto. They will also have an introduction to the powerful testimony of Combatants For Peace, with speakers from both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Book tickets before this Sunday 30 June to get great discounts – including £10 off every adult ticket!

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Artist Bobby Baker participates in a conversation about mental health, friend of the festival Adrian Plass returns with the latest volume of his Sacred Diary, and they bring back the pioneering Battle of Visions debates, in which the audience referees debates between speakers – confirmed participants include Jim Wallis, Symon Hill,Helen Arney and Mark Stevenson.

There will also be debates on marriage, liberation theology, the welfare state and human enhancement, with a whole host of previously announced speakers including John Bell, Maurice Glasman and Marika Rose, plus new additions Steve Fuller andLuke Robert Mason.

On the Sunday night Mainstage bill with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, with support from hotly-anticipated rockers The Temperance Movement and awesome two-piece King Kool. And get back to the old school with Greenbelt favourites Why? as one of our retro lunchtime gigs.

Get to the Performance Cafe early for an exclusive headline set for Martyn Joseph, an all-age ceilidh from Flaming Nora, and the Solas Festival comes to Cheltenham with special performances by Iain Morrison and Rory Butler.

Performing arts additions include “urban ghost story” Time for the Good Looking Boy, and spoken word artist Emma Decent presents her travelogue-cum-autobiographical-myth Beyond Dreams of Aberystwyth. Announcements soon for the film programme.

In the youth programme, get popping and locking to RoBoDiScO, cut your tracks with the friendly folks from XLP, and debate beauty and body image with Chine Mbubaegbu. Plus boot camp, workshops in capoeira, gum boot dancing, and improv comedy, and plenty of socialising in the brand new Chillage. Plus workshops and events for the whole family.

Greenbelt Festival 2013 takes place at Cheltenham Racecourse, Prestbury Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire between Fri 23rd to Mon 26th August 2013 more details here